Ummmm...

"Thayer said she is regularly using ChatGPT to come up with ideas about planning what to eat, while also having it calculate the nutritional value of the pumpkin-banana-oat bread she’s been baking for years."

But conversely,

"Perhaps defying emerging media consumption trends, 28-year-old Sanaa Wilson usually skips right past those AI-generated summaries.

“It has to be a basic question like, ‘What day does Christmas land on in 2025?’” said the Los Angeles-area resident. “I’ll be like, ‘That makes sense. I trust it.’ But when it gets to specific news, related to what’s happening in California or what’s happening to the education system and stuff like that, I will scroll down a little bit further.”

Wilson, a freelance data scientist, does use AI heavily at work to help with coding, which she said has saved her hundreds of dollars she would have had to pay for training. She also occasionally uses it to come up with work-related ideas, an attempt to bring back a little of the collaborative brainstorming experience she remembers from college life but doesn’t have now.

When it first came out, Wilson said she also used ChatGPT to help write emails, until she learned more about its environmental impact and the possibility it would erode her own writing and thinking skills over time.

“It’s just an email. I can work it out,” she said. “However many minutes it takes, or seconds it takes, I can still type it myself.”"

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-poll-229b665d10d057441a69f56648b973e1

#AISucks #BIgGas #MethanePollution
#FossilFuel #ClimateChange
#BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters

Sounds like #Wyoming needs a new governor!

#AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

By Benj Edwards, July 29, 2025

"Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon praised the project's potential benefits for the state's natural gas industry in a company statement. 'This is exciting news for Wyoming and for Wyoming natural gas producers,' Gordon said."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/ai-in-wyoming-may-soon-use-more-electricity-than-states-human-residents/

#AISucks #BIgGas #MethanePollution #FossilFuel #ClimateChange #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters

Maine Senate passes food scraps disposal ban

The measure would require commercial and industrial-scale food waste producers to donate their edible leftovers and recycle what remains.

by Penny Overton, March 6, 2024

"The Maine Senate voted 20-12 in favor of the #FoodScraps disposal ban on Tuesday, moving the state one step closer to becoming the final New England state to require commercial and industrial-scale food waste producers to donate their edible leftovers and recycle what remains.

"'This bill will divert food waste from landfills within the state of Maine,' said Sen. Stacy Brenner, D-Scarborough, the Senate chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee that worked the bill. 'Currently 40% of municipal waste in the state is food waste.'

The House approved L.D. 1009, a bill introduced by Rep. Stanley Zeigler, D-Montville, 75-64 last month.

"Although approved by both chambers, the bill has not yet been funded. It would require about $550,000 to $600,000 a year to pay the staff needed to regulate and monitor a food waste disposal program. It is up to the appropriations committee to decide whether to fund the bill."

[...]

"The bill would gradually ban the landfilling or burning of food waste. It would require commercial and industrial producers to donate edible leftovers to food rescue groups, such as food banks, transfer them to farmers for use as animal feed or fertilizer, or take them to an organics recycler.

"The ban would be implemented in 2026 and initially apply only to waste producers making at least 2 tons of waste a week located within 25 miles of an organics recycler. Eventually, in 2028, the ban would expand to include 1-ton producers within 25 miles of an organics recycler."

Read more:
https://www.centralmaine.com/2024/03/06/maine-senate-passes-food-scraps-disposal-ban/

#Maine #FoodScrapBan #FoodWaste #FoodInsecurity #FoodBanks #Methane #MethanePollution #ClimateChange #Composting

#Maine Legislature Passes #FoodScrapBan

Will keep thousands of tons of #FoodWaste out of #landfills.

March 6, 2024

"Maine’s legislature has passed a bill that would require many commercial food producers to #donate and #compost food waste rather than send it to a landfill. The bill would reduce #FoodInsecurity, save cities and towns money, and slow #ClimateChange from #methane pollution.

"#ConservationLawFoundation (#CLF) released the following statement in response: "#MethanePollution is over 80 times more dangerous than carbon dioxide in driving the climate crisis,' said Nora Bosworth, #ZeroWaste attorney at CLF. 'The main culprit of this pollution is decomposing food scraps in landfills, and this bill offers a logical solution to this problem. It’s time for Maine to catch up with the rest of New England and embrace a better solution for our food waste.'"

https://www.clf.org/newsroom/maine-passes-food-waste-ban/

Biden’s EPA Just Enacted Its Strongest Methane Rules Yet https://heatmap.news/economy/biden-epa-methane-rules

#EPA: #Biden - #Harris Administration Finalizes Standards to Slash #Methane #Pollution, Combat #ClimateChange, Protect Health, and Bolster American Innovation https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-finalizes-standards-slash-methane-pollution-combat-climate

"'The U.S. now has the most protective #MethanePollution limits on the books': Fredd Krupp, president of the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, which has played a major role in exposing the dangers of methane."

A way to dramatically cut methane pollution from millions of engines https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/07/a-way-to-dramatically-cut-methane-pollution-from-millions-of-engines/

#SLAClab #methanepollution #palladiumcatalyst #methane